Mark 16 : 4

Greek uses the vivid historic present θεωροῦσιν ('they behold'), a Markan stylistic feature; both Syriac ܚܙܝ and Latin viderunt render the action with a simple past/perfect, normalising the tense and dampening the narrative immediacy of the original.

Greek introduces the content clause with ὅτι plus a finite verb (ἀποκεκύλισται); Latin instead uses the perfect passive participle revolutum in attributive position with no conjunction, and Syriac employs the relative-prefixed participle ܕܡܥܓܠܐ. The traditions diverge in how they package the subordinate clause, though the sense ('that the stone had been rolled away') is identical.

Greek perfect passive ἀποκεκύλισται stresses the completed state of the rolling-away; Syriac renders this with the participle ܡܥܓܠܐ accompanied by the enclitic copula ܗܝ, supplying the 'is/was' that Greek folds into the finite verb. The added pronoun-copula is a normal Syriac syntactic requirement rather than a substantive addition.

Greek and Latin place the adjective 'great' (μέγας / magnus) after the verb 'was' in the explanatory clause, whereas Syriac fronts ܪܒܐ ('great') immediately before the copula ܗܘܬ, reordering the predicate. The semantic content is unaffected; only the position of the predicate adjective differs.

The explanatory particle is rendered by Greek γάρ and Syriac ܓܝܪ (itself a loan of the Greek), while the Vulgate prefers quippe over the more usual enim; all three function identically as causal/explanatory connectives.